FENTON, MI -- Federal authorities have issued a warrant for a Fenton man who failed to report to prison after pleading guilty to a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme.

Ronnie Edward Duke was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on June 3 after being sentenced April 8 to 13 years in federal prison for the scheme that included more than 180 metro Detroit homes and 100 straw borrowers.

However, federal court records show he never turned himself in.

Duke's attorney, Flint-based Mark Clement, said he has not heard from Duke and that federal authorities have been searching for him.

Duke was also ordered pay $95 million in restitution and a $1 million fine for the scheme that lasted for close to four years, ending in July
2007, when the FBI executed seven search warrants in metropolitan Detroit and Florida, say U.S. attorneys.

The scheme involved obtaining "real" loans and, in
many instances "ghost" loans, from mortgage lenders. The loan
applications and other related documents were fraudulent, according to court records.

Duke and his co-conspirators used the money to purchase
luxury items, including a helicopter, cars, boats, residential properties and
extensive travel to the Caribbean and foreign vacation destinations, court records said.